Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 12/23/2014, NTP

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 12/23/2014

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 11 new rules and made modifications to 1 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos's rule release:
Synopsis: Talos is aware of a vulnerability affecting Network Time Protocol (NTP). 
Details: CVE-2014-9295: A coding deficiency exists in NTP that may lead to remote code execution. A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 32890. 
Talos has also added and modified multiple rules in the browser-plugins, file-flash, file-multimedia, file-other and server-other rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://www.snort.org/products. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!